To:V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO

Written:Written on December 8 (21), 1917Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

      Printed from the typewritten text signed by Lenin.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1975,

      Moscow,Volume 44,

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ComradeAntonov, who is leaving for Moscow and from
there for the south to conduct military operations against
Kaledin,[1]is obligedevery day, by direct line (personally
or through an aide), to inform the Council of People’s
Commissarswhomprecisely he, or other military
authorities, appoints asresponsiblepersons for directing
particular operations, especially as regards movement and
mustering of troops and command.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars

[1]InDecember 1917, V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko left for the Ukraine
to assume command of the Soviet troops fighting against
Kaledin’s forces.